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Presidency of Moldova Reportedly Refutes Purported Deepfake Video Slandering President Maia Sandu
- Occurred
- Dec 29, 2023
- Published
- Dec 29, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A deepfake video reportedly depicting President Maia Sandu's image and voice was released in Moldova, allegedly portraying her in a negative light to sow division and undermine democratic institutions. This video reportedly appeared on Telegram and was linked to Russian disinformation efforts.
Developers
- Russian propagandists
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
- Deepfake creators
Deployers
- Russian propagandists
- Pro-Kremlin actors
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Presidency of Moldova
- Maia Sandu
- Government of Moldova
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
- Democratic integrity
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves synthetic media used for disinformation targeting a political leader.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8